Dean Koontz Quotes

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

When you choose a show you really don't know where it's going to go. Sometimes things let you down and sometimes things just surprise you and fulfill you way more than you thought.

One of the things that I find so exciting about life is that you're constantly surprised. You never know what's going to happen, and it's certainly like that making movies; every once in a while, one will come along that transcends all of your expectations.

People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be surprised.

It's like real life: We don't get a preview of what's coming up, thank God, and we don't build our own character from what we're going to be informed with in the future.

Life doesn't always give us what we are expecting.

Life doesn't always end up with a bow wrapped around it.

It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

I always try to plan things out, but they never work out the way I expect.

It's worth turning up to an awards gig if you know you've won one but, since you never do know, it's not worth it.

They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises.

I have planned my whole future, my whole life. And nine out of 10 times, it never happens the way you want or plan or think it's going to happen.

You try not to pay too much attention to the hype before the game, because you never know what's going to happen.

You never have these moments that, you know, are always perfect. Always something happens.

The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.

Everything comes to nothing in the end, I suppose. Or at least, nothing happens exactly the way we imagine it.

Life is not what you expected it to be.

We're all really happy with what's familiar. But what's inevitable in life is change. That's what life is.

A lot of Americans like happy endings, but life does not necessarily have a happy ending.

Where will I be five years from now? I delight in not knowing. That's one of the greatest things about life its wonderful surprises.

Nothing really ever happens like you imagine it will.

We do not always get what we want. Sometimes life presents us with surprises.

That's how life is. Sometimes there are happy endings, sometimes there aren't, and more often there are shades of gray.

However much we talk of the inexorable laws governing the life of individuals and of societies, we remain at the bottom convinced that in human affairs everything in more or less fortuitous. We do not even believe in the inevitability of our own death. Hence the difficulty of deciphering the present, of detecting the seeds of things to come as they germinate before our eyes. We are not attuned to seeing the inevitable.

I conduct my life with an expectation that people will do the right thing. Yet even with all my experience, I am still surprised when they do not.